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Images of children as strong and capable rights-holders have nestled comfortably into the vernacular of early childhood education and care discourses. Promoting a view of children as entitled to contr
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Increased global attention to early childhood education and care in the past two decades has intensified attention on the education of infants and assessment of their learning in education policy. Thi
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THE AUSTRALIAN EARLY CHILDHOOD Reform Agenda, initiated in 2008 by the then Labor government, heralded a commitment to a focus on child outcomes in early childhood education and care policy in order t
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Shifts in global education policy to formalise curricula and make explicit learning outcomes for ever younger children have become popular for a number of countries responding to changes in global mar
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Inherent in the Australian Government's marketised provision of early childhood education is the assumption that parents are informed consumers of child care who can discern centre quality. Drawing on
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The early childhood education (ECE) sector in Australia is marked by a habitus where ‘professionalism’ is confined to objective, technical practices. The authos suggest that this is a diminished view
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In July 2009, the Council of Australian Governments approved for immediate implementation, 'Belonging, Being & Becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia' (EYLF), Australia's first nat
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The ranking of peer-reviewed academic journals within a discipline or scholarly field, and establishing the esteem in which specific journals are held, is an inevitably contentious exercise. Nonethele
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As 2008 draws to a close, it is timely to reflect upon the events that have shaped our year and look forward towards our expectations for teacher education research in the coming year. As we reported
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This article problematises the construction of regulation as an effective manager of risks to children in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. Adopting a Foucaldian, governmentalist app
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This article extends current understandings of sources of job (dis)satisfaction for childcare staff by investigating the hypothesis that early childhood professionals’ satisfaction with regulatory req
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As editors, one of the key issues we consider when deciding whether to send a manuscript for review is how well the paper has been theorised. Many of the submissions we receive describe projects that
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This article both supports and complicates the positioning of reconceptualists who frame the regulation of early childhood services as repressive. Drawing on Foucault’s construction of power and, in p
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